RJ Stangherlin

Keystone Technology Integrator and STAR Discovery Educator

This site is for Mrs. Stangherlin's classes at Salisbury High School.

Delving into Destiny with Smart Technologies

For the past month, Miss Honochick, our SHS library media specialist and CFF coach, has been delving into Destiny, our library’s new management program, and it is wonderfully comprehensive tool.  Ostensibly, it is a catalog manager, allowing students and teachers to manage searches by keyword, title, author, subject, or series.  But that’s just scratching the surface of its powerful potential, as Miss Honochick demonstrated with students.  Spending two days with my English classes, we delved deeper into Destiny Quest, and I must it was fun all the way.

Destiny Quest adds many features that mimic online audible platforms like Audible, where the software helps you select your reading genres, series, and interests, while updating its catalog of newest arrivals.  Like many subscription services, Destiny Quest features the Top Ten books and new arrivals, but what will make me a platform user is the ability to create My Personal List and customize my library space, similar to Shelfari.  Web Path Express delivers a world of web search benefits for students and teachers that is grade differentiated, self-directed, academically notches beyond Google (sorry, Google Certified Teachers), and safe, targeted to what high school students can expect to use in college, or rather, what college professors will expect in research engines.  Finally, I love the Resources List feature, where I can aggregate all my searches in one reliable, 24/7 space.

After taking an interactive tour of the new hardware, students collaborated on a WebQuest created by Miss Honochick.  Using our new CFF SmartBoard, students stand and deliver, the Smart way.  Enjoy the video of the IP class session.  (My apologies to English 11 classes; I borrowed a camera and all the photos came out too dark to use.)

Destiny
Follett Software
library resources
Miss Honochick
Smart Boards
CFF
Turbo Tagger